#desert

In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944. ↗

— Gyorgy Legeti

#deserted #forced #i #january #labor

Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#days #desert #dusty #fields #landed

Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel. ↗

— Melina Mercouri

#crucial #decisive #desert #greek #how

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#desert #light #night #off #once

From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when called, gone where ordered, and defended our nation with honor. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#answered #bitter #called #cold #courageously

I like the desert for short periods of time, from inside a car, with the windows rolled up, and the doors locked. I prefer beach resorts with room service. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#car #desert #doors #i #inside

A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert. ↗

— Denis Kearney

#barren #desert #each #few #few men

Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#come #commitment #cruelty #desert #each

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. ↗

— Jules Verne

#breath #covers #desert #everything #feels

Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil! ↗

— Golda Meir

#bring #desert #east #israelis #me